Adjective Classes - A Cross-Linguistic Typology
n8 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald IMPERS) 'be breakable'. Most of them can form a morphological causative marked with -ita, e.g. makara ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 119 The value adjectives matfa'proper, good' and, to a lesser extent,ma:1fi'bad, ad- verse' can ...
no Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald This 'double noun class agreement' is attested only with the singular animate noun class. Underived a ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 121 TABLE 10. Syntactic properties of adjectives compared with nouns and verbs Verb Adjective N ...
122 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (who are) like dogs' (used to describe those who marry people from the same lan- guage group as them ...
4 The Adjective Class in Tariana 123 kayute (green/blue:NCL.ANiM grass like:NCL.ANiM) 'blue/green like grass' to refer to green' ...
124 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald References AIKHENVALD, A. Y. 1998. 'Warekena', pp. 215-439 of Handbook of Amazonian languages, edit- ...
Adjectives in Mam Nora C. England Mam is the third largest Mayan language, spoken by over 600,000 people in the north-west highl ...
126 Nora C. England proclitics, except several status suffixes on verbs and the person/number marking on non-verbal predicates, ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 127 The head noun in a noun phrase is preceded (in this order) by demonstratives, numbers (with or without a ...
128 Nora C. England (4) adjective: Q'an-0-taq chulal. ripe-B3sg-iMP sapodilla "The sapodilla was ripe.' (5) verb: Oo-taq 0-b'aj ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 129 all adjectives. Finally, there are several examples of the double application of the abstract noun suffi ...
130 Nora C. England Adjectives are derived from transitive and intransitive verbs, nouns, positional, and other adjectives. Deri ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 131 (20) joch'- 'sitting, idle' jooch' 'lazy' mok'- 'crouched' mook' curved' -Cflj: nonproductively derives ...
132 Nora C. England kok'na 'fine-grained' chmalnaj 'humid' t'oqnaj 'soaked' xulxaj 'tasteless' txub'txaj contented, tranquil' le ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 133 roots where the basic meaning seems to be more like the noun or positional, we are left with approximate ...
134 Nora C. England (33) jatuma t-0-a qloolj where EXisx-B3sg-Disp dark 'where it is dark' Attributive adjectives usually preced ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 135 (42) Measures: kab' jatz' waa'j 'two bites of tortilla' kyaaj tx'anaj tchi' 'her four pieces of meat' Th ...
136 Nora C. England The only adjectives that can be used with another adjective without a conjunction are ni 'small' and nimaal ...
5 Adjectives in Mam 137 (58) Ya saabe puur kyiw-0 weena. now you.know very hard-I>3sg very 'It's very hard.' (59) Puur kyee'y ...
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